Creating a topic via email without write access to the category?

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Troubleshoot reply by email

If your Discourse does not have incoming email set up, see these topics: Set up reply by email with POP3 polling Configure direct-delivery incoming email for self-hosted sites with Mail-Receiver If you already have basic reply via email set up (which is common on hosting plans), and you want to add the ability to start a new topic via email, see this topic. Logging and Errors All incoming emails are logged and are visible in your admin panel at /admin/email/received.…

Configuring incoming email to create new topics or group messages

This guide explains how to configure Discourse to create new topics or group messages from incoming emails. It covers site settings, group configuration, and category settings. Required user level: Administrator Configure incoming email to create new topics or group messages Discourse allows you to send emails to a special address to automatically create new topics in a category or new group messages. This feature is useful for integrating Discourse with ext…